posted: 07-01-2010 by: Thomas Ruttig
Read AAN’s new cultural-linguistic Pashto Mashto under blog here, find out what that means and learn more about Afghanistan’s ‘human terrain’.
The new category of blogs deals with non-political issues, like language, culture etc. But not only with Pashto...
Contributions and comments are most welcome.
Xhe raghlast wa khosh amaded.
AAN blogs provide timely update about political and security developments in Afghanistan.
Other blogs by Thomas Ruttig
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Flash to the Past: Football under the Taleban (2) - Nobody Shouts ‘Allahu Akbar’
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Afghanistan Has a Two-Party System Now
PEACA JIRGA BLOG 9: A Déjà vu of Big Tent ‘Democracy’
PEACE JIRGA BLOG 5: The Big Karzai Show
German President's Resignation (Not) Afghanistan-Linked
News from the German Front: The West’s Afghan Policy ‘has failed’
An Honest Transfer or ‘The Devil May Care’?
Flash to the Past: Islamic Order à la Hekmatyar
Gulbuddin ante portas - again (Updated)
How ‘neo’ were the ‘Neo-Taleban’?
Political Parties in Re-Registration
Taleban Attack on Muhammad's Birthday
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Implications of Mulla Baradar’s Arrest
Are We Afghanistan-Driven in London?
Between Frustration and Bakhshishs
AAN Myth Busters (II): Taleban = Pashtuns?
A GoA Reconciliation Policy in the Making
A First Glance at Karzai’s Second Choice
A UN Postscript to the Provincial Council Elections
AAN Myth Busters (I): ‘Afghans Always Fought Outsiders’
What the Lakki Marwat Carnage Shows
The Cabinet Vote: Confusion as Political Principle
Time to Work with Warlords? What?
Happy Christmas (But war isn’t over)
Obituary Dr. Bernt Glatzer (by AGA)
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Afghanistan's democrats; from underground to marginalisation (MEI paper repost)
A meaningful Afghanistan conference needs civil society involvement
Kabul Diary (2): A Ring of Steel Sheets
A Suicide Attack in Uruzgan (UPDATED)
Militias - The Sorcerer’s Apprentice’s Genies (2): A Look Forward
Militias - The Sorcerer’s Apprentice’s Genies (1): A Look Back
AAN Election Blog No 39: Deeper into the One-Way Street
The Guesthouse Attack and the Run-Off
What possibly still could be done...
BREAKING NEWS: Ban Fires Galbraith
AAN Election Blog No 32: What Next in Afghanistan? (1)
Kabul Diary (1): Glimpses of Kabul, Summer 2009
Another Day without an Orange Revolution
An election observer speaks out
Flash to the Past: Elections under Fire (12 Sept 2008)
UNODC Sees Afghan Drug Cartels Emerging – With One Eye Closed
AAN Election Blog No. 29: ‘A fraud would go unnoticed’
AAN Election Blog No. 28: Two Paktias?
Epistemology of Reconciliation
AAN Election Blog No. 25: Balm for Election Sores
AAN Election Blog No. 24: Stuffing and Counting in Paktia
AAN Election Blog No. 22: E-Day in P2K
AAN Election Blog No. 16: Impressions from P2K (3): Taleban Shut Down Bazaars in Paktika and Khost
AAN Election Blog No. 15: The Best Candidates’ Posters (3) - War & Peace Movements
AAN Election Blog No. 12: Impressions from P2K (1): Flying with Both Hands
AAN Election Blog No. 14: Impressions from P2K (2): Floor Crossing and an Afghan Perspective
AAN Election Blog No. 8: The Best Election Posters (2)
AAN Election Blog No. 6: An Ink Issue Again?
AAN Election Blog No. 5: The Best Candidates' Posters (1)
AAN Election Blog No. 4: The Bag and the Donkey
AAN Election Blog No. 1: Rockets over Kabul
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